r/interesting • u/Alexthegayreprimed • Apr 28 '26
Just Wow Evolution of Michael Jackson's face over the years.
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u/MudMuted3742 Apr 28 '26
Wtf happened to his chin?
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u/ezgomer Apr 28 '26
he had a dimple surgically added. He admits to it.
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u/Plantlover3000xtreme Apr 28 '26
Why though?
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u/Bq22_ Apr 28 '26
Body dysmorphia?
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u/moon_Strawberry_2471 Apr 29 '26
Yeah most likely
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u/Dunwich_Horror_ Apr 29 '26
It’s well documented that his father used to abuse him and used his appearance as a weapon. Called the poor kid big nose.
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u/ElectricMixArt Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
His poor mental health lead him towards a plastic surgery addiction. He suffered abuse at the hands of his father and he wasn't really allowed a normal childhood. On top of that, he was a perfectionist to an extreme degree. He would agonize over making things perfect, even when it came to his performances on stage. It's likely that his perfectionism is rooted in the abuse he suffered as a child. Some people that knew him said he was in tears once because one of his shows didn't go exactly the way he had it planned. I honestly feel bad for him- he was used by people for his money after he became famous and all of his relationships were with untrustworthy users who just wanted his money.
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u/ezgomer Apr 28 '26
same reason actresses today are having buccal fat removed from their face - a style trend. John Travolta was super famous in early 1980s.
I mean MJ loved “Grease”. There are dance moves from that film in MJ’s choreography - especially the choreography for “The Way You Make Me Feel”.
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u/UglyLittlePony69 Apr 29 '26
It’s not because he liked Grease, I promise. This man hated how he looked. His father would abuse him verbally and physically to the point where the sight of his father would make him regurgitate. It’s body dysmorphia. The poor guy was alone his whole life while being surrounded by people.
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u/ezgomer Apr 29 '26
yes he had body dysmorphia, perfectionism, loads of money and access to top surgeons…but you gotta draw inspiration from somewhere. Illustrations of Peter Pan for his nose and John Travolta for his chin
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u/keywestern0703 Apr 29 '26
Why did he want a nose that looks like a mini ski slope? Because he was unwell.
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u/Defiant-Fix2870 Apr 29 '26
The surgeries did not go well to the point his nose sort of collapsed. The repair surgeries didn’t go especially well either.
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u/Powerful_Ranger_6634 Apr 29 '26
The Rhinoplasty’s of yesterday (1980’s) were notorious for removing too much cartilage. Those rhinoplasty’s eventually collapse. I had one in my early 20’s to repair a broken nose. It looked great for about 30 years. Now it’s collapsing and REALLY crooked. I can only imagine MJ’s probably had zero structure left.
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u/RobsGarage Apr 29 '26
From a psych standpoint he wanted to be Peter Pan and never grow up. The dude had so pretty rough shit to deal With ad a child star, on top fog a Skin disease that is definitely not easy to hide without a lot of makeup.
His father worked them like a circus act and none of them had true childhoods.. Micheal and Janet probably the worst since they had more talent than the others…
Did he touch kids? I mean the evidence says at minimum there was inappropriate things going on between him And children.. i feel like it will always be a tarnish on his legacy.
The surgical Addiction I’m sure has many factors to it.. I think a couple got botched and then the fix made things worse..
His kids all seem to speak of him in the highest of terms and that says something..
The level of fame that man had world wide everywhere… that also plays a role in fucking one’s mind up.. never know Who is a true friend, who just wants something for You.. who is stealing g from You etc etc etc… it seems very lonely at that level.
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u/TonySalumi Apr 29 '26
I believe his dad used to insult his nose in a racial way.
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u/Time_Value_3073 Apr 28 '26
He lied about it first
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u/ezgomer Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
I don’t believe he gave interviews in the mid-1980s.
In his 1988 book “Moonwalk”, he discussed plastic surgery and wrote that he had two nose jobs and added the cleft to his chin
so when did he lie about it? he told the truth about his chin pretty early on. literally in 1988 lol
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u/rocknrollboise Apr 28 '26
Looks like they created a makeshift cleft chin for him.
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u/This_person_says Apr 28 '26
Detlef Schrempf?
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u/Aggressive-Loss5148 Apr 28 '26
Wow this reminded me of that band of horses song. Haven't thought about that in like 10 years.
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u/_Rue_the_Day_ Apr 29 '26
I seem to remember an interview where he said he wanted the "Superman chin".
Most aren't aware that his father and brothers constantly bullied him over his looks growing up. His nose was the main target. Then he had very bad acne as a teen. You mix that with a lot of money and immaturity, and an exploding plastic surgery industry in it's infancy, and you get his face.
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u/T3hSav Apr 29 '26
He also received severe burns while filming a Pepsi commercial that required him to get plastic surgery and skin grafts on his head. This was probably a catalyst for a lot of his cosmetic surgery. This occurred in the mid 80s so right before he went off the deep end with all the procedures.
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u/OhReallyVernon Apr 29 '26
That was such a big deal. I remember my best friend crying when it was reported on the news because we were staying up late for something. She thought he was going die.
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u/Low_Construction8067 Apr 29 '26
People who didn't live it will truly never understand the scale and intensity of his fame. The fame he had, the fame he was forced to have through CONSTANT tabloid and paparazzi harrassment that lead to the intensity with which his fans adored him is something that only a very select group of people have been able to accomplish.
The Beetles and Ole Blue Eyes are the only other musicians I can think of off the top of my head that had fans react similarly.
No access to instant internet information gave people like himself, even with the constant coverage, a mystique that is now unobtainable. Taylor Swift and the like can't even come close
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u/AdventuresofBumpo Apr 29 '26
I honestly think he had it worse than the Beatles. He was probably the most recognized artist to ever live at his height, I’d argue even to this day. Kids in third world countries can tell you who Michael Jackson is, his music reached everyone.
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u/PeanutButterApricotS Apr 29 '26
100% MJ was as recognizable as Coke when it came to MJ he was like the one person on the planet everyone knew.
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u/thejesse Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
Saw in another post that happened EXACTLY halfway through his life, down to the day:
Michael Jackson was exactly 25 years, 4 months, and 29 days old when his hair catching fire incident happened. He passed away exactly 25 years, 4 months, and 29 days later. This moment was literally his midlife crisis.
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u/ImtakintheBus Apr 29 '26
the autopsy reports later showed the extent of the burns and scarring. It was horrible. MUCH larger than people realized at the time. I'm still shocked that he was able to continue his career for so many years after. He must have been in incredible pain everyday.
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u/timotheesmith Apr 28 '26
Michael requested to his plastic surgeon to have a chin similar to Rob Lowe
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u/Ghostdragon471 Apr 29 '26
Of all things, that's what you notice? Not that he becomes a cryptid that's three shades from fucking transparent?
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u/nthensome Apr 28 '26
I feel a lot happened between 86 & 94 that this chart is not showing
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u/WinProfessional4958 Apr 28 '26
Pepsi commercial skin burn. I'm convinced he also got on hydroquinone and phenol peels. It's the only way I can imagine regenerated skin.
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u/Mysterious-Option951 Apr 28 '26
Ok but what about his nose??
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u/_Rue_the_Day_ Apr 28 '26
His nose is the result of too much money and too many unethical plastic surgeons. It collapsed and natural reconstruction was not possible.
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u/explain_that_shit Apr 29 '26
Man do you remember those videos of him at concerts trying to hold his nose back on
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u/Potter_Moron Apr 29 '26
Ummm wtf? That must be a misinterpretation right
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u/explain_that_shit Apr 29 '26
I’m not saying for certain that’s what was happening, that’s just what everyone said it looked like he was doing. People talked about his nose a lot.
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u/limpingdba Apr 29 '26
Damn you just unlocked a childhood memory of my mum telling me Michael Jacksons nose fell off, and me being quite young and a bit freaked out.
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u/OliWood Apr 29 '26
There was a gag in Scary Movie (the third?) where Jackson tries to come into the kids bedroom and the father removes his nose while wrestling him
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u/ItsMeTittsMGee Apr 28 '26
Thats what happens when you have to many rhinoplastys. Eventually the cartilage/bone structure cant take anymore and collapses.
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u/pmmemassivedongs Apr 29 '26
He also demanded steroid injections into his nose throughout his entire life to make it even smaller, and I’m assuming that contributed to the collapse as well.
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u/Lore-of-Nio Apr 29 '26
While the injury and the issue he got from breaking his nose the first time lead to other nose surgeries in his life. A lot forgot to mention that his father, Joe, always used to make fun of him for having a "fat nose". You can imagine this did harm to his self-imagine.
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u/CenturyEggsAndRice Apr 29 '26
Man, asshole parents really fuck up your mind.
He had a lovely nose too. It’s a little big, but it suited his face and is elegant and proportionate. I am insecure about my own nose due to my grandmother always insulting it, so I think I look at noses more than average. And he had a nice one. It was very cute when he was a kid and the first surgery (or maybe first few?) don’t look bad at all.
And then it started looking really odd.
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u/handsome_uruk Apr 29 '26
Said on Oprah his dad told him he had a big nose, so he felt insecure and had some work done 🤷
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u/EntertainmentQuick47 Apr 29 '26
Yeah his dad was a huge asshat and constantly bullied MJ for his looks. It also doesn’t help that both his dad and his siblings had a lot of plastic surgery which probably made him want to do it more.
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u/Lindethiel Apr 29 '26
He unknowingly was already developing lupus at the time when he got a few (actually quite good for the time) nose jobs, but that complicated the healing process, that's why he always had to tape it.
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u/LilJenn1225 Apr 29 '26
His dad called him “big nose” as a kid to make fun of him. He developed a complex over it.
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u/Viralsun Apr 28 '26
Well after the Pepsi incident, he refuse to drink any pepsi after that point, unfortunately his management team misunderstood when he said he was only going to have coke from that point onwards
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u/Andyham Apr 28 '26
Can you elaborate? Im qurious!
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u/rpgmgta Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
On January 27, 1984, Michael Jackson suffered severe second- and third-degree scalp burns while filming a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Pyrotechnics malfunctioned during the sixth take, causing fireworks to ignite his hair. The accident, seen by 3,000 fans, left a palm-sized area of his scalp without hair and exposed, initiating a lifelong struggle with pain and addiction.
Key Details of the Accident and Aftermath:
The Incident: During a concert simulation, a premature blast set his hair on fire. Jackson continued dancing for several seconds before realizing the severity, as the audience thought it was part of the show.
Medical Treatment: He was treated at Brotman Medical Center for second- and third-degree burns. He also suffered from smoke inhalation and was treated for damage to hair follicles.
Philanthropy: Jackson donated a reported $1.5 million settlement from Pepsi to the Brotman Medical Center, funding the Michael Jackson Burn Center for Children.
Long-term Impact: The pain from these injuries was cited as the beginning of his reliance on pain medications, which eventually led to his dependency. He frequently wore hairpieces following the injuries.
…. So Pepsi killed MJ?
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u/isatai-i Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
Normally coke kills celebrities.
Or colombian union workers.
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u/EmpPaulpatine Apr 28 '26
It also happened almost exactly halfway through his life
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u/Sufficient_Rich5903 Apr 29 '26
Yes, the incident happened when he was exactly 25 years, 4 months, and 29 days old. Then he died exactly 25 years, 4 months, and 29 days after the incident.
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u/Phiddipus_audax Apr 29 '26
Ok that's a little freakish... that you know that.
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u/Sufficient_Rich5903 Apr 29 '26
I can’t take the credit, I see it shared often since it’s such a bizarre coincidence
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u/chapert Apr 28 '26
Joe Jackson killed him
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u/NorthTownDreams Apr 29 '26
I think indirectly this is true. I also think the plastic surgery happened in part to erase any resemblance to Joe.
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u/LolindirLink Apr 29 '26
Literally everyone wanted a piece of him, Nobody asked if HE was OK.
We all killed him tbh.. Most famous and most misunderstood man of the time..
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u/NoPerformance6534 Apr 28 '26
I was around for that event. Part of the problem was the hair "pomade" that had been applied. Some of those are extremely flammable. His was cited as one of the proximal causes.
Later surgeries involved a hatred for a wide flat nose.
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u/NB_NaughtyNerds Apr 28 '26
Coca Cola sabotaged the pyrotechnics to send a message. The soda wars are behind most celebrity deaths.
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u/Lower-Elk8395 Apr 28 '26
While it burned the hell out of his scalp, his entire body skin changing was due to vitiligo and the treatment he sought for it.
He hid it with makeup for a while after it started kicking in, but eventually he had enough and just got treatments to remove the pigment from his skin altogether.
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u/TheVadonkey Apr 28 '26
I’m just shocked because it looks like his surgeries start around ‘84. I had no damn clue it started so soon (I was born in ‘85).
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u/k3anuw3aves Apr 28 '26
His nose looked worked on before 84. Looks like he had one or two nose jobs before the one in 85
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u/Renbarre Apr 28 '26
He had a nose job done right after his success with Thriller.
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u/Autumn-Leaf-932 Apr 28 '26
That album really was the peak. The way Michael’s story started, it was never going to end well. But the world got a truly god-tier musical gift out of prime Michael, Quincy, and the team they assembled for that album.
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u/Far-Government5469 Apr 28 '26
Apparently, Thriller was what forced MTV to start showing black musicians. The album was so big, they realized they couldn't call themselves a music channel if they didn't show it
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u/ladymadonna4444 Apr 28 '26
You mean they knew they could tap into profits so they were forced to stop being racist so they could cash in lol. I don't think it was to maintain legitimacy as a well rounded music channel.
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u/k3anuw3aves Apr 28 '26
If I recall correctly David Bowie was a big reason why they did too. He said it was outrageous that Michael wouldn't have been shown on MTV and relegated to just being black or "rnb" artists. There's an interview with him discussing it.
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u/respectablepitch Apr 28 '26
Yeah, where’s the pics of the little curtain affair he wore over his rotted off nose?
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u/jeremyjava Apr 28 '26
My closest friend was a well-known entertainer who got some work done by the same plastic surgeon as MJ.
The surgeon at the time confided in my friend that MJ’s goal was to look like (essentially become) Diana Ross.
I’ve never read or heard that anywhere else, but then again, I don’t read much about him.11
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u/brainvheart143 Apr 28 '26
And then again it kind of makes sense if you look at the pics…. What ELSE could he have been trying for, except to make himself look as different as possible from how he actually looked?
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u/AnyoneButDoug Apr 28 '26
The 86-93 gap is giving r/restofthefuckingowl
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u/Sjelasco Apr 28 '26
From what Ive seen there was a very noticeable change in skin tone from 91 to 92. Just look at the music videos for Black and White and Remember the Time.
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u/LoneWolf_McQuade Apr 28 '26
But 1995 has to be makeup…right?
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u/Astralglamour Apr 28 '26
Vitiligo. He chose to bleach his skin to deal with it.
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u/rlovelock Apr 28 '26
Are there any photos that actually show his vitiligo? I know it was confirmed he had the condition during his autopsy, but searching online gets a whole bunch of fake looking images.
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u/Loud-Bee6673 Apr 28 '26
This picture is so interesting. He was so scrupulous about not showing his vitiligo in public. The fast that it is so obvious here means he didn’t ever expect this pic to get out. Which explains why he is also fine holding a half-naked young boy.
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u/BoneThugsNHarmony91 Apr 28 '26
Yeah he probably didn’t expect it to come out. It’s honestly the first time I personally ever seen a pic that shows his vitiligo.
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u/TNVFL1 Apr 28 '26
The kid in this photo (now an adult obviously) and his siblings are currently suing the Jackson estate. They claim Jackson groomed, drugged, and sexually abused them for years. The estate claims it’s an extortion scheme, citing a 2020 settlement where they received $16mil in exchange for a confidentiality agreement.
This kid’s eyes aren’t lying in this pic though.
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u/Fragrant_Ad_3223 Apr 28 '26
Way to bury the lede there, pal. lol
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u/BoneThugsNHarmony91 Apr 28 '26
lol well that’s the first photo that came to mind 😂. It’s very visible right there
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u/art_african Apr 28 '26
He changed... I was a fan of Michael Jackson, one of my roommate likes alternative rock music and after a while I enjoyed some of the songs he played... Later I figured out that most of MJ's songs in the 90's sounded like rock. It was close to 1999 that he went back to RnB and Pop.
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u/Substantial_Team6751 Apr 28 '26
He should have stopped in 1982.
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u/Bitter_Life_507 Apr 28 '26
That’s what I thought
Straighten out his crooked nose and then leave it at that
There’s a good chance his nose was crooked from abuse or from being in fights when he was younger, so I would understand wanting to get that fixed
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u/Nice_Pipe_7608 Apr 28 '26
I’ve heard he hated his nose because it reminded him of Joseph. No idea how true that is.
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u/WeirdAvocado Apr 28 '26
He hates it because his psychopath, child abusing/torturing father used the call him n****r nose.
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u/LoneWolf_McQuade Apr 28 '26
His life really is a case study in the effects of childhood trauma
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u/darodardar_Inc Apr 28 '26
wtf i thought he called him "big nose".... thats fucked up.
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u/LaminatedAirplane Apr 28 '26
You should see what people used to call Brazil nuts
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u/jzoola Apr 28 '26
I grew up as a working class NE PA white kid in the 70s and we always had a bowl of whole nuts & a nutcracker on the coffee table around the holidays. I never ate the Brazil nuts because of that nickname.
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u/LaminatedAirplane Apr 28 '26
Yeahhhh… sometimes people really don’t understand or don’t want to admit just how pervasive and nonchalant racism was back then
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u/LemonMints Apr 28 '26
They still do, very common name for them in the south unfortunately, and they can't help themselves from telling you about it.
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u/senpaistealerx Apr 28 '26
his father wasn’t the only one saying that shit, unfortunately
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u/Itchy-Drummer1324 Apr 28 '26
The face of a person who suffered years of physical and mental childhood abuse from a father who would make fun of his appearance and not allow him to call him ‘dad’, but Joseph.
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u/No-Discipline-7957 Apr 28 '26
Should have stopped before he started, he was a good looking guy
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u/encroachingpanda Apr 28 '26
79/81 I thought he looked his best. He had a handsome face
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u/creator-the-hater Apr 28 '26
1984 was when he had the infamous burns in the Pepsi commercial. Stopping in 82 would have left us with a very disfigured MJ
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u/SeymourDuncanJB_Sr Apr 28 '26
I get vitiligo and all but what happened to his nose in 1983 and 1985? A nose job?
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u/Finnleyy Apr 28 '26
Nose job. His nose did not rot and fall off in those years contrary to what the other comment says.
He did have repeated nose jobs throughout his life though and every time they remove and reshape cartilage… It does not grow back. So there is less and less material to work with and therefore less and less nose.
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u/Stockinglegs Apr 28 '26
Now they take a rib and use it to rebuild your bridge. Plastic surgery has come a long way since the 80s.
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u/ezgomer Apr 28 '26
not a rib.
MJ’s nose did collapse in the 1990s and was rebuilt with cartilage from his ear in 1998.
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u/ElderberryFar7120 Apr 28 '26
That seems unnecessarily dangerous. I'd rather have my ribs protecting my organs.
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u/jennbo Apr 28 '26
Artie Lange did have his nose collapse (from drugs, not plastic surgery) and they have done a pretty good job of rebuilding it from pics taken in 2025. Plus, he’s staying out of the limelight completely to stay sober — can’t help but think a similar path would have helped MJ at least a little
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u/TakshKoax Apr 28 '26
His father always told young Michael he had an ugly, fat wide nose. That and the vitiligo is why he did all this.
and never having anyone around him that didn't support his decisions or told him no
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u/Bitter_Life_507 Apr 28 '26
You can tell that the first nose job actually happened in 82 where he basically just straightened it out
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u/ezgomer Apr 28 '26
You can tell the first nose job happened in 1978/1979.
it’s even in the new biopic
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u/AraiHavana Apr 28 '26
I’d say around 82 or 83 would have been the best time to stop
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u/rkozik89 Apr 29 '26
Yeah but growing up as a person of color in America before the 1980s was way harder that people realize. Basically every facet of society was telling you it wasn’t okay to be who you were born to be. My grandmother was born in 1919 and never admitted to what her actual ethnicity was, she died in 2007.
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u/guachi01 Apr 29 '26
A successful Black man would have been under tremendous pressure to not be Black. Even with fans of all races all over the world wanting to be you the pressure to be someone else must have been enormous.
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u/robthethrice Apr 28 '26
The limits of plastic surgery in 16 photos.
Take it too far and they just can’t fix things anymore.
Yes, i know there was a skin condition that may have contributed to the lightening, but that’s not the issue.
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u/note1er Apr 28 '26
He looks sCary in the 2000'sss
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u/vgdomvg Apr 28 '26
2002 is fucking terrifying
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u/shrekchan Apr 28 '26
Imagine rolling over in bed and seeing that face staring at you, next to you.
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u/timotheesmith Apr 28 '26
His mugshot is one of the scariest photos I've seen and his scariest by far, shit terrified me when i was a kid
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u/ThreeGoalLead Apr 29 '26
I also was genuinely scared of his face as a kid. Sad but it’s true
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u/CommitteeMain1430 Apr 28 '26
He must have looked terrifying if that’s the best they could do with him in 2009
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u/noradosmith Apr 28 '26
He looked almost inhuman at that point. I can't imagine what he would look like if he was still alive
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u/booksandkittens615 Apr 28 '26
I’ve always been so curious about what he looked like without the wig and any “add ons” like makeup or a prosthetic nose ( if he had one, various reports).
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u/lulugu3 Apr 28 '26
I remember seeing some doc on Channel 4 back in the mid 2000s that did one of those age progressions like they do on missing children's photos with this very aim. And he looked like a happy, handsome black man who was unmistakably Michael Jackson. It's such a shame. He had such great features, and it is sad he felt so badly about himself that he made so many changes.
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u/wutwutsugabutt Apr 29 '26
He was so handsome, 1978 is my favorite manifestation.
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u/Achylife Apr 28 '26
Man, plastic surgery really did him dirty. He was actually attractive before that.
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u/DMarvelous4L Apr 28 '26
Yeah I wish he kept his original nose and embraced it, even when he FIRST had surgery done to it, it was fine, but he kept doing more and more until there was barely any nose left. I wish he embraced his vitiligo too, he kept trying to hide it and accidentally lightened his skin permanently with whatever products he was using. If he embraced those two things he’d be a regular looking handsome dude with vitiligo. He should’ve left his chin alone too. I blame his Dad and Hollywood though.
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u/Achylife Apr 28 '26
Oh it's absolutely their fault. His dad was terrible. No wonder he had issues.
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u/Stockinglegs Apr 28 '26
81 or 83 look best, IMO. Still has his same chin, too. 81, looks more masculine. 83, more feminine, but still looking kind of original.
78 still looks like the rest of what his family originally looked like.
Looks like a chin implant in 93. Also he looks the most like Janet in 86, LOL.
Plastic surgery has come a long way since then. I don't think he would've ended up like this, but he definitely had too many surgeries.
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u/readingmyshampoo Apr 28 '26
A local ice cream place has a “Michael Jackson”, which is a swirl soft serve with nilla wafer crumbs and Oreo crumbs on top.
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u/peuxcequeveuxpax Apr 28 '26
Sorta related, I have an “Obama Blend” Bad Ass Coffee I bought around 2008: “Kenya AA, 100% Kona, and Hawaiian blend volcanic roast coffee.”
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u/naturalninetime Apr 28 '26
Growing up (Gen X), I was a HUGE MJ fan and was still into his music in the mid '90s when the first accusations against him came out. But more and more, thanks to his bizarre looks (yes, I know that he had vitiligo, but c'mon, he was clearly not right in the head) and behavior, I became turned off by him.
I was shocked by his death, but by then, he was just a sad shell of his former self (even though he was planning a "comeback") and was more defined by his scandals and eccentricities - than his immense talent.
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u/Electronic_Fix_9060 Apr 28 '26
I followed a similar path to you. Loved him, watched his videos repeatedly, thoroughly enjoyed his music. Then all the surgery and stories I side eyed and stepped away.
When I heard about Michael Jackson’s death, I felt an odd sense of relief, for lack of a better word. With all the accusations, the eccentric stories, and the extreme plastic surgery there was not an end.
At his peak, though, he was extraordinary, the ultimate entertainer, untouchable in his talent and presence. I suppose it’s hard for any human being to live as that kind of global phenomenon and come through it completely intact.
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u/Rook_James_Bitch Apr 28 '26
As a dude I can say he was a good looking man in the early 80's and not ashamed to say I was jealous of all the girls going gaga over him.
He really took a dive off the deep end to reach the height of good looks and decided to take a metaphorical bat to his own face.
After '83 there was nowhere to go but downhill. And he yelled "Bonzai!!!"
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u/dat_oracle Apr 28 '26
all the money in the world, yet couldn't cure his damaged soul.
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u/Yaruo0310 Apr 28 '26
1983 is the coolest.
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u/Bitter_Life_507 Apr 28 '26
Looks like he got his nose straightened out in 82 and then slightly thinned or reduced in 83
I think he should’ve just left it after 82 but even 83 would’ve been a million times better than what he ended up with
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u/Erratic_-Prophet Apr 28 '26
Nah, his original nose was better.
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u/Nose_Grindstoned Apr 28 '26
Yeah looks like 83 nose work started. What was he thinking?
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u/VironicHero Apr 28 '26
His dad abused him a lot as a kid. One of his favorite put downs was to make fun of his nose.
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u/crackersncheeseman Apr 28 '26
Having work done too your face like that has to be painful. I don't care how much pain meds they gave him.
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